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JOHN W. BURNHAM, O F VVINTERPORT, MAINE.

Letters Patent No. 62,111, dated February 19, 1867.

IMPROVED LINIMENT.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. BURNIIAM, of Winterport, in the county ofWaldo, in the State of Maine, have invented a new and improvedMedicamcnt; and I do hereby declare that the following is a. full andexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingingredients. 7

This compound, which I call the Yankee Liniment, consists of thefollowing ingredients in the described proportions, to wit: oil ofspruce, one ounce; oil of hemlock, one ounce; oil of cedar, one ounce;oil of organum, one ounce; oil of rosemary, one ounce; oil of juniper,one ounce; oil of sassufras, one ounce, oil of rectified nniber,- oneounce; aqua ammonia, of the stro 'gest kind, one ounce; sweet oil, oneounce; tincture of arnica, one ounce; fir balsam, one ounce; spiritsofturpentine, one ounce; laudu-num, one ounce; gum of camphor, oneounce; Turkey gum myrrh, one ounce; alcohol, eighteen ounces.

My liniment' is prepared in the following manner: To one ounce ofpulverized gum myrrh are added eighteen ounces of alcohol; this mixtureis allowed to stand two or three days, when it is strained off, and oneounce of gum of camphor dissolved in it; the other ingredients named arethen added, the aqua.- ammonia last of all. The resulting compound,having been well stirred, is put into a bottle, which is tightly corkedand allowed to stand about two days, when the compound is strainedthrough a. cloth two or three times. Before bottling it should be wellshaken, and after bottling it should be excluded from the air.

What I claim as new, and desire to sccure'by Letters Patent, is

The liniment, consisting of the ingredients mentioned, combinedsubstantially as described.

' JOHN w. BURNHAM.

Witnesses:

G130. H, HALL, N. E. HALL.

